The Prince Audiobook (Free)

This is actually the world’s most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Astonishing in its candor, The Prince can be a disturbingly practical and prophetic focus on what it takes to be always a prince, a ruler, a president.

When, in 1512, Machiavelli was taken off his post in his favorite Florence, he solved to create down a treatise on management that was practical, not really idealistic. The prince he envisioned will be unencumbered by ordinary ethical and moral beliefs. Through the years, The Prince continues to be misunderstood to the extent that Machiavelli’s name has become synonymous with unscrupulous political behavior. Nevertheless, it remains important reading as the best reserve on power politics. In it Machiavelli analyzes the usually violent means by which men seize, retain, and eliminate political power. The Prince provides a amazingly uncompromising picture of the real nature of power, regardless of who handles it or in what era. Included are choices from Machiavelli’s Discourses upon the First Ten Books of Titus Livy.